What did King Pepin give to Pope Zachary and what was the gift and the country called that was developed by it?
Donation of Pepin, Papal States
Who was in the First Triumvirate?
Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, Marcus Crassus
Who was the top Carthaginian general during the 2nd Punic War?
Hannibal Barca
What does "Cartago delenda est" mean?
Carthage must be destroyed
Who was 1) the Roman leader who invaded Britain in 55 BC and 2) the Roman leader who conquered southern Britain starting in AD 43
Julius Caesar in 55 BC, Emperor Claudius in AD 43
The Celtic Britons who stayed in southern Britain gradually developed into a new people called the ___?
Romanized Britons
What are the 3 most common monastic vows?
Poverty, Obedience, Chastity
The murder of the daughter of Theoderic the Great helped trigger which war?
The Gothic War
The first of the 5 pillars of Islam is a statement of faith called a what?
Shahadah
Which Pope wrote a long letter that contributed to the Chalcedonian Creed?
Pope Leo I, "The Great"
Mecca and Medina stand in what region of Arabia, which runs along the east coast of the ___ Sea.
Hejaz, Red Sea
inner = circumvallation, outer = contravallation
Muslim conquest of Iberia was started by who in 711?
Tariq bin Ziyad
Emperor of the Romans
What are the 3 forms of government of Ancient Rome in correct chronological order?
Kingdom, Republic, Empire
I convened the Council of Nicaea in AD 325
Constantine
I reigned under the title Princeps Civitatis, Latin for "First Citizen"
Octavian
Celtic Warriors painted their bodies with a plant called ____ that produced what color?
Woad and Blue
Athanasius of Alexandria
The Justinian code was part of a larger collection of the law called the _____ _____ _____, which translates to ______ __ ____ _____.
Corpus Juris Civilis = Body of Civil Law
I destroyed the second temple in Jerusalem before he was emperor
Titus
I conquered southern Britain starting in AD 43
Claudius
I murdered both my own mother and my own wife
Nero
I used money from the sack of Jerusalem to build the Roman Colosseum
Vespasian
I set up a four-emperor system called the tetrarchy
Diocletian